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Amedisys Hospice Of Brevard

1696 W Hibiscus Blvd Ste B, Melbourne, FL 32901 · Medicare-certified hospice

CMS has not published a star rating for this provider yet. That usually means too few completed surveys to publish one — often a smaller or newer provider — not that quality is average or poor. It is a gap in the data, not a verdict. The full record is on Care Compare below.

This hospice cared for an average of 24 patients a day. 65% of its care was delivered in a private home. Its Hospice Care Index score is 10 out of 10, against 8.8 nationally. 82% of surveyed families said they would definitely recommend it.

What families said (CAHPS Hospice survey)

MeasurePercent of families
Rated the hospice 9 or 10 out of 1093%
Would definitely recommend it82%
The team always treated the patient with respect93%
The patient always got the help they needed for pain and symptoms86%
The team always communicated well87%
The team always provided timely help85%
The team gave the right amount of emotional and spiritual support89%
Rated the hospice 6 or lower0%
Would probably or definitely not recommend it6%

Asked of bereaved family caregivers several months after the death. The last rows are the least favourable answers — shown because a page that prints only the good ones is an advertisement.

The seven care processes

MeasureThis hospiceNational
Treatment preferences documented
149 patients
100%99.8%about the same
Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that
149 patients
100%99.27%about the same
Screened for pain
149 patients
100%99%about the same
Given a full pain assessment
66 patients
96.97%98.27%too few patients to compare
Screened for shortness of breath
149 patients
100%99.53%about the same
Treated for shortness of breath
53 patients
100%98.59%too few patients to compare
Given a bowel regimen with an opioid
27 patients
100%98.46%too few patients to compare
Received all seven care processes
149 patients
98.66%96.15%about the same

Medicare checks seven things every hospice should do when a patient is admitted. Nearly every hospice scores in the nineties, so a few points below the national figure is a real gap rather than a rounding difference. “Better” and “worse” here mean this provider differs from the national figure by more than 10% of it and by more than half a percentage point; anything closer reads “about the same”. That second test matters on the rare-event rows — a national rate of 0.2% would otherwise make almost any provider look remarkable. CMS does not publish a significance test for these measures, so where fewer than 100 patients sit behind a rate — or where the national rate is low enough that a handful of events would swing it — we print both numbers and decline to grade, rather than call a named provider worse than average on the strength of three patients.

Hospice Care Index

10/10
Hospice Care Index
IndicatorThis hospicePercentile
Continuous or inpatient care provided
% of days
0%52th percentile
Gaps in nursing visits
% of elections
63.9%66th percentile
Early live discharges
% of live discharges
11.1%80th percentile
Late live discharges
% of live discharges
5.6%3th percentile
Burdensome transitions, type 1
% of live discharges
5.6%42th percentile
Burdensome transitions, type 2
% of live discharges
0%45th percentile
Per-patient Medicare spending
$
$13,97928th percentile
Nurse minutes per routine home-care day
min
15.1 min77th percentile
Skilled-nursing minutes on weekends
% of minutes
16.8%91th percentile
Visits near death
% of decedents
98.3%88th percentile

The Care Index is ten separate checks on how a hospice actually operates — whether nurses visit near the end, whether patients are discharged alive unusually often, how much care is delivered at weekends. The score is how many of the ten it passes. The percentile says where this hospice sits among all hospices on that row, and for rows where a lower number is better a low percentile is the good end.

Who this hospice cared for, and where

Main condition of the patients it served

ConditionPercent of patients
Cancer25%
Dementia28%
Circulatory or heart disease16%
Other conditions22%

Where its care was delivered

SettingPercent of care
In a private home65%
In an assisted-living community32%
In a nursing facility3%

About this hospice

Medicare-certified since: 07/27/2023

Other Medicare-certified hospices in Florida

Families are usually choosing between several hospices, not evaluating one. Each link opens the same record for that hospice. See all hospices in Florida.

What this rating measures

This star reflects the family caregiver survey (CAHPS Hospice) — how families rate the hospice’s communication, timeliness, help with symptoms, and emotional support. Learn more in our guides to hospice vs. palliative care and hospice and end-of-life care — the second explains the four levels of care Medicare covers (including continuous home care during a crisis and inpatient care), which families are routinely never told about.

Full quality record

The complete, current CMS record for this provider — every quality measure and patient-experience result — lives on Medicare’s official Care Compare tool. We link straight to it rather than repackaging a stale copy.

View Amedisys Hospice Of Brevard on Medicare Care Compare ↗

Certification, contact details, and star rating from the CMS Care Compare dataset (public domain), retrieved 2026-07-17. Quality measures from the CMS hospice public reporting file, August 2026 release. Care Compare is the authoritative source for the full quality record and for the provider’s current phone number.

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